The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

I’m a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer.

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.